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Article: Unfinished business; Cambodians deserve the right to pick their rulers by election. (editorial)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1989
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Cambodians deserve the right to pick their rulers by election
ONE thing to worry about in 1990, when so much else should be going right, is the danger that the three half-finished wars of 1989 will stay that way. The Russians have left Afghanistan, the Cubans are leaving Angola, the Vietnamese are out of Cambodia; but that is not, or should not be, the end of the matter. Those three countries still have neither peace nor a free vote. Thanks to an American congressman and the Australian government, Cambodia at least may now have a chance of getting them.
Cambodia is run by an averagely incompetent communist government under Mr Hun Sen, who was installed ...